Audit targets Tbilisi mayor's sanitation service
Georgia's State Internal Financial Control System officers have
resumed their audit of the Tbilisi mayor's Sanitation Service,
Radio Liberty reported.
Georgian Finance Minister Nodar Khaduri said on Wednesday that the
investigation is not new.
He says it began two years ago but was later suspended.
According to Khaduri, the audit is related to taxes and has nothing
to do with politics.
The Tbilisi mayor's office announced on Tuesday that its seven
departments are currently under investigation by the
prosecutor-general, the Finance Ministry, and the Interior
Ministry.
Mayor Gegi Ugulava is a close associate of President Mikheil
Saakashvili.
A number of investigations were launched against officials
representing Saakashvili's United National Movement party after
current Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream
coalition won parliamentary elections in October.
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